Rome, 2 October 2017 - FAO launches today in FAOSTAT a new data domain within its set of agri-environmental data products, on Temperature change. The FAOSTAT Temperature Change dataset contains nationally-aggregated data on observed mean surface temperature changes, by country, over the period 1961–2016, with respect to the 1951-1980 climatology, takes as the reference period. This FAOSTAT dataset is developed in collaboration with the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (NASA-GISS) and will be updated annually. [more]

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The FAO Statistics Division (FAO ESS) has recently prepared the final draft of the World Programme for the Census of Agriculture 2020 (WCA 2020), Volume 2 Operational Guidelines based on countries experiences.

Every year, on 18 November, African countries celebrates the African Statistics Day (ASD) with the objective of raising public awareness about the importance of statistics in economic and social development.